Building with nature not a luxury, calls for political will
Amid the transformation in cities, a question steadily crowded out is what happens to the ecological systems when urban land is treated…
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Multispecies Justice and the political economy of Shillong
Multispecies justice recognises that humans are deeply interconnected with a host of other species but this is hardly represented in urban planning.…
Delhi has plans to restore
the Ridge. Ecologists
have questions
Can humans truly build a forest with a few native species and art-themed woodlands has been the lingering question since the first…
Wayanad’s mountains have spoken, again. Who’s listening?
The recent Kalladi landslide showed that, like fear after the Choolarmala landslides two years ago, key questions too did not fade. Just…
A reality-based, sustainable urban planning order
The abysmal living conditions and perpetual stress for millions in cities like Mumbai are not accidental but the intended outcome of planning…
What do Mumbai’s buildings owe the street?
Modern architecture has become mesmerised by the skyline and silhouette, and forgotten the human scale, the intimate two metres at which people…
Woh kuche, woh galiyaan, mohalle kahan hain?
The narrow streets, winding lanes, and intimate localities were once the social spaces at the threshold of public and private life. Beyond…
The vertical Panopticon: Architectural violence in
rehab towers
The multi-storeyed rehabilitation towers for slum dwellers, by their design, are nothing less than the intensification of the very conditions in slums…
Planning does not make space for women, children, and
the informal
The way cities are planned and built reveals a disconnect and inequity in how they treat the marginalised, the informal workers, women…